While the _Douane_ remained here, no accident
of that kind happened, but since their removal, other houses in the
neighborhood have been robbed as well as mine. Perhaps it may lessen the
difficulties of this request, that the house occupied by the people of
the _Douane_, will lodge abundantly a _corps de garde_. On the one side
of that house is Chaillot, on the other the Roule, on the third the
Champs Elysees, where accidents are said to happen very frequently, all
of which are very distant from any _corps de garde_.
I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the most perfect respect and
esteem, your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CCXIV.--TO THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE, July 9, 1789
TO THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE.
Paris, July 9, 1789.
Dear Sir,
Having been curious to form some estimate of the quantity of corn and
flour which have been supplied to France this year, I applied to a
person in the Farms to know upon what quantities the premium had been
paid. He could not give me information, but as to the Atlantic ports,
into which there have been imported from the United States, from March
to May inclusive, forty-four thousand one hundred and sixteen quintals
of corn, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-one quintals of flour,
making fifty-six thousand three hundred and thirty-seven quintals in
the whole.
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